Monday, January 14, 2008

New Year's Resolutions

Well, the poll is closed and nobody voted. I did, but that doesn't count.

I went looking for my last year's resolutions and I could have sworn that I had made a resolution to swim 100 miles (that's just about one mile twice a week, but I never got my schedule so I could actually go swimming for an hour at a time) but I guess I didn't.

Here are my resolutions for the last two years and the new ones for this year:

2006

Get paid to publish Reach Out Didn't happen

Complete Level 1 of Rosetta Stone Greek Not quite

Communicate with extended family once a week Still need to work on this

Communicate with extended family once a week I hope their not too disappointed in me

So why do I do it? Why do I keep making resolutions when I can't seem to keep them? It feels SO good when you do make them (I did once, back in 99 or so) and besids, it gives your Jiminy Cricket one more bullet for his guilt gun.

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Mrs. Prop is Greek. We've been married for 17 1/2 years and I've been bungling along in my attempt to learn Greek the whole while.

I actually signed up for a class twice. The first time turned out to be a class in Ancient Greek and the second time turned out to be more of a cultural class and for tourists.

Learning to say, "Is this the right bus for the Acropolis?" or "I would like a room with a bath," don't really help when I'm trying to understand what my father in law is trying to tell me about Greece's place in the EU and what's going on with his soccer team.

I would love a full blown college course like I had in French or German, but I haven't been able to find one.

I just don't think that I can do it without a tutor and Mrs. Prop does NOT have the temperment or the ear to be a language teacher.

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While deployed in Afghanistan I chose as my radio call sign, Illini6. 6 denoting commander and Illini in honor of my Alma Mater.

This blog is a place to share and enjoy the writings and rantings of the Inner Prop.

Inner Prop was a nickname given to me because in times of stress I call upon my inner prop (Prop is in reference to the Rugy Union position of Prop Forward). The inner prop is like the inner child, only more violent.